AIMS 4TH ANNUAL HIGH SCHOOL REPORT CARD (RC4)

New Brunswick Anglophone High Schools

In our efforts to expand the comprehensiveness of the school report cards, we have an additional dimension in our framework this year: school-assigned grades in math and language arts. As (regrettably) has phased out the use of standardized testing for the Anglophone high schools, future Report Cards will see this breadth of data decline.

That change is already having an impact in this Report Card, as insufficient data is available for several schools on the last round of examinations, forcing us to leave them out of the final overall rankings for the first time; High School and Sir James Dunn Academy being just two examples.

Harvey High School earned the highest grade (B+) among the New Brunswick Anglophone schools. Harvey High did particularly well on the contextually adjusted scores, earning an A. High School had the province’s second-highest ranking, earning a B. Several schools made considerable improvements over the past year, including Dalhousie Regional High School, Sussex Regional High School, , and J.M.A. Armstrong/Salisbury Middle School, which all improved from a C+ to a B, and Southern Victoria High School, which improved from a D to a C.

Several schools declined in performance over the past year. Notably, fell from a B+ to a B; Cambridge-Narrows School fell from a B+ to a C+; and Sugarloaf Senior High School fell from a B to C+ as did Tantramar Regional High School, Riverview High School, and North & South Esk Regional High School.

RC4 RC4 RC3 RC4 Absolute RC4 Overall Final Final Final Overall Performance Rank Grade Grade School Name and Location Performance in Context 1 B+ B+ Harvey High School, Harvey Station B+ A 2 B B , Fredericton B+ B 3 B B+ Kennebecasis Valley High School, Rothesay B+ C+ 4 B B , Rothesay B+ C+ 5 B B , Fredericton B B 6 B B Hartland High School, Hartland B+ C+ 7 B C+ Dalhousie Regional High School, Dalhousie C+ B+ 8 B B Hampton High School, Hampton B B 9 B C+ Sussex Regional High School, Sussex C+ B+ 10 B B Woodstock High School, Woodstock B B 11 B B James M. Hill Memorial High School, B B 12 B B Carleton North Senior High School, Bristol B B 13 B C+ Oromocto High School, Oromocto C+ B 14 B C+ John Caldwell School, Grand Falls C+ B 15 B C+ J.M.A. Armstrong/Salisbury Middle School, Salisbury B B 16 B B+ Saint John High School, Saint John B C+

Page 1 of 2 RC4 RC4 RC3 RC4 Absolute RC4 Overall Final Final Final Overall Performance Rank Grade Grade School Name and Location Performance in Context 17 C+ C Tobique Valley High School, Plaster Rock C B 18 C+ C McAdam High School, McAdam C+ B 19 C+ C+ St. Stephen High School, Old Ridge C+ B 20 C+ B North & South Esk Regional High School, Sunny Corner C+ B 21 C+ C+ Blackville School, Blackville C+ B 22 C+ C+ Belleisle Regional High School, Springfield C+ B 23 C+ C+ Nackawic Senior High School, Nackawic C+ B 24 C+ B Riverview High School, Riverview B C+ 25 C+ C+ , St. George C+ C+ 26 C+ B+ Cambridge-Narrows School, Cambridge-Narrows C+ C+ 27 C+ B Tantramar Regional High School, Sackville C+ C+ 28 C+ B Sugarloaf Senior High School, Campbellton C+ C+ 29 C+ C+ Harrison Trimble High School, Moncton C+ C+ 30 C+ C+ Miramichi Valley High School, Miramichi C+ C+ 31 C+ C+ Petitcodiac Regional School, Petitcodiac C+ C+ 32 C+ * St. Malachy's Memorial High School, Saint John C+ C+ 33 C+ C+ Minto Memorial High School, Minto C C+ 34 C+ C Bonar Law Memorial School, Rexton C C+ 35 C+ C Caledonia Regional High School, Hillsborough C C+ 36 C C , Saint John C C+ 37 C C , Saint John C C 38 C D Southern Victoria High School, Perth-Andover D C+ 39 C C Community School, Grand Manan C C * * B Bathurst High School, Bathurst * * * * * Bernice MacNaughton High School, Moncton * * * * C Consolidated School, Wilson's Beach * * * * B Canterbury High School, Canterbury * * * * C+ Chipman Forest Avenue School, Chipman * * * * C+ Doaktown Consolidated High School, Doaktown * * * * B Moncton High School, Moncton * * * * A Saint Mary's Academy, * * * * A Sir James Dunn Academy, St. Andrews * * * * C+ Stanley Regional High School, Stanley * * * * C+ Upper Miramichi Regional High School, Boiestown * *

* Grades are based on a three year rolling average. If a school does not have at least two years of data for a particular measure it will not receive a grade for that measure. RC4 is based on data from the school years 2001/02, 2002/03 and 2003/04.

General

• A more detailed breakdown of the results for each ranked high school has been published as an insert in the March issue of Progress magazine. A copy of this insert can be found online at http://www.aims.ca/library/rc4insert.pdf

• A further expanded data set, including the available results for all reported schools, plus expanded sub-measures for ranked schools will soon be made available online to allow for an inter-active cross school comparison on any available measure or a combination of measures. Please watch our website at www.aims.ca or subscribe to our newsletter at http://www.aims.ca/newsletters.asp?cmPageID=200 for an update when this information becomes available.

• New Brunswick learning centres and private schools are not reported and no partial data will be made available for them.

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